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Counsels on Health
We must keep close to the word of God. We need its warnings and
encouragement, its threatenings and promises. We need the perfect
example given only in the life and character of our Saviour. Angels
of God will preserve His people while they walk in the path of duty,
but there is no assurance of such protection for those who deliberately
venture upon Satan’s ground. An agent of the great deceiver will say
and do anything to gain his object. It matters little whether he calls
himself a spiritualist, an “electric physician,” or a “magnetic healer.”
By specious pretenses he wins the confidence of the unwary. He
pretends to read the life history and to understand all the difficulties
and afflictions of those who resort to him. Disguising himself as an
angel of light, while the blackness of the pit is in his heart, he manifests
great interest in women who seek his counsel. He tells them that all
their troubles are due to an unhappy marriage. This may be too true,
but such counsel does not better their condition. He tells them that
they need love and sympathy. Pretending great interest in their welfare,
he casts a spell over his unsuspecting victims, charming them as the
serpent charms the trembling bird. Soon they are completely in his
power, and sin, disgrace, and ruin are the terrible sequel.
Our only safety is in preserving the ancient landmarks. “To the
law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them.”
Isaiah 8:20
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